CVE-2017-5196

irssi: Out of bounds read in certain incomplete character sequences

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.1

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Published · January 5, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

Irssi 0.8.18 before 0.8.21 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via vectors involving strings that are not UTF8.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read